Israeli PM Caught On Hot Mic Deriding ‘Crazy’ EU, Admitting To Syria Strikes

Benjamin Netanyahu was caught Wednesday by a live microphone railing against the European Union’s “crazy” insistence on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Associated Press
By Associated Press
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, listens to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, July 19, 2017. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)

BUDAPEST, Hungary  — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was caught Wednesday by a live microphone railing against the European Union's "crazy" insistence on resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a precondition for closer ties with the 28-nation bloc, and trumpeting Israel as essential to its prosperity and survival. Netanyahu was

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Protests Erupt In As ‘Fortress Europe’ Rises To Replace Open Borders

As the European Commission once again failed to offer a collective solution for those fleeing war-torn and poverty-stricken lands abroad, Hungary has come to exemplify the continent’s worst tendencies when it comes to treatment of refugees

Jon Queally
By Jon Queally
Hungarian police officers gather at main border exit between Serbia and Hungary near Roszke, southern Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Hungary are set to introduce much harsher border controls at midnight — laws that would send smugglers to prison and deport migrants who cut under Hungary's new razor-wire border fence. The country's leader was emphatically clear that they were designed to keep the migrants out. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Protests have erupted near the Hungarian border with Serbia on Tuesday after the right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán fulfilled its promises to close Hungary's borders and treat refugees attempting to cross into the country as criminals. After sending army soldiers to bolster defense of newly-erected razor-lined fences, Orbán

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Fired Hungarian Camerawoman Apologizes For Kicking Migrants

The 40-year-old was fired by the right-wing N1TV online channel after footage of her kicking and tripping migrants Tuesday near the village of Roszke went viral on social media

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By Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Hungarian camerawoman caught on video kicking and tripping migrants near the Serbian border has offered a qualified apology for her behavior. Petra Laszlo said in the letter published Friday in the daily Magyar Nemzet newspaper that she was "sincerely sorry for what happened," but she also sought to defend her

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VIDEO: Hungarians Take To Throwing Computers At Government Buildings To Protest Internet Tax

Don’t mess with net neutrality.

Timothy McGrath
By Timothy McGrath
Hungary Internet Tax

When the people in power try to make the internet more expensive and less free, one way for the public to respond is by gathering up all the obsolete computing equipment that's lying around and start hurling it at government buildings. That's exactly what the people of Budapest did yesterday. The world is struggling to figure out to future of

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Sochi Threat Likely a Hoax

Russia may run greater risks in towns outside the tightly controlled Olympic zone.

Associated Press
By Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Threats to a string of European Olympic offices are reviving a question that has haunted preparations for the Winter Games next month: Is it safe to go to Sochi? European Olympic authorities, whose countries have faced terrorist threats and attacks in the past, largely shrugged off the new menacing messages as a hoax, a

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Activists, Governments Do Battle With US Big Agriculture And Their GMOs

Memos leaked to Wikileaks reveal that the U.S. government sought to fight back against nations who banned genetically modified crops.

Trisha Marczak
By Trisha Marczak

When it comes to public perception of genetically modified products (GMOs), Europe and the U.S. are worlds apart. More than 80 percent of all foods found in a typical American grocery store contain genetically modified ingredients. Efforts to push for regulations that would require companies like biotech giants, Monsanto and DuPont, to label items

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